id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3525 Winthrop Fleet - Wikipedia .html text/html 1414 171 69 The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16[1] funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration. He temporarily dissolved Parliament in 1626, and again the next year, before dissolving it permanently in March 1629.[2] The King's imposition of Personal Rule gave many Puritans a sense of hopelessness regarding their future in that country, and many prepared to leave it permanently for life in New England, and a wealthy group of leaders obtained a Royal Charter in March 1629 for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[3] Nine leading men applied for the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony and came to New England in Winthrop's Fleet.[10] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3525.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3525.txt